Andrew Lee, clinical spokesperson for the American Academy of Ophthalmology and a neuro-ophthalmologist at Houston Methodist Hospital, said he's had some patients who developed NAION who were taking semaglutide, but the question was always whether this is a causal association or merely an association alone. People with Type 2 diabetes are already at an increased risk for vision problems, including NAION
I think something is changing in the reward pathway in the brain. GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide stimulate the production of insulin, which can cross the blood-brain barrier
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